Geforce GTX 680 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which has GPU core speed of 975 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

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Radeon R7 370 4G		17 Mh/s
Geforce GTX 680		16 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (6%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
Geforce GTX 680		195 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (77%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Geforce GTX 680 is 7% quicker than the Radeon R7 370 4G overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		192256 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 13056 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 should be quite a bit (more or less 106%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		128768 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 66368 (106%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 680 is superior to the Radeon R7 370 4G, though only just barely. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		32192 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 992 (3%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.